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OF CALIFORNIA
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C. K. OGDEN
The History of
The Lowell Institute
JOHN LOWELL, JR.
The Founder of the Lowell Institute
From the only portrait extant, painted in Egypt at the time of the
execution of the will endowing the Institute
Cf-
The History of
The Lowell Institute
BY
HARRIETTS KNIGHT SMITH
Lamson, WolfFe and Company
Boston, New York and London
MDCCCXCVIII
Copyright, 1898,
By Lamson, WolfFe and Company.
All rights reserved.
Norwood Press
J. S. Gushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U. S. A.
Contents
Page
Author's Preface ..... ix
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A List of Lecturers and the Subjects of their
Lectures in the Lowell Institute, 1839-
1898 49
Index 95
V
A List of Publications corresponding to, and
mainly the direct result of, Courses of Lect-
ures delivered before the Lowell Institute . 106
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THE Author and Publishers gratefully recognize
their obligations to representative New Englanders,
for numerous courtesies received during the writing of
this history ; but especially to Augustus Lowell, Esq. ,
Benjamin E. Getting, M.D., and Professor William
T. Sedgwick, for confirmation and approval of their
united labors.
List of Illustrations and Portraits
John Lowell, Jr., the Founder of the Lowell
Institute .... Frontispiece
Opposite Page
The Odeon, corner Federal and Franklin Streets,
Boston ...... 7
John Amory Lowell, Esq. . . . .15
Professor Jeffries Wyman . ... .18
Dr. B. E. Cotting . . . . .20
Marlboro Hotel, showing Passageway to the
Marlboro Chapel . . . . -25
The Lowell Drawing-School Room in Marl-
boro Chapel . . . . .28
Dr. Josiah Parsons Cooke . . . -33
Professor Louis Agassiz . . . -39
Rogers Building, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology . . . . -43
Huntington Hall, Rogers Building . . 45
Plan of Huntington Hall . . . .48
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Preface
SOME years since, in the course of
other professional work, it became
necessary for me to make intelligent men-
tion of the Lowell Institute in connection
with Professor Henry Drummond's pres-
ence in America, as its lecturer, — at which
time I discovered with surprise that this
noble endowment had no written his-
tory. An intense love of my native land
prompted me to make a thorough review
of this unique American institution, and
the following pages are the result of three
years of delightful investigation.
"How do you estimate the influence
which the Lowell Institute has had upon
the intellectual life of the country ? " I
asked of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,
within four months of his death.
" When you have said every enthusi-
astic thing that you may, you will not
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have half filled the measure of its impor-
tance to Boston — New England — the
country at large," he replied.
"I myself," he added, "feel that its
benefits have been of the largest signifi-
cance to me, since at the time I was in-
vited to deliver a course of lectures on the
English Poets, I was not a well-equipped
critic, but as an honest man I went about
fitting myself for this important public
service — which resulted in almost re-
making my intellectual life, in its larger
outreach. No nobler or more helpful
institution exists in America than Boston's
Lowell Institute," he concluded.
To the memory of John Lowell, Jr.,
the founder, — and to the memory of
John Amory Lowell, first trustee of this
beneficent foundation, this brief history is
dedicated by a citizen, as a grateful tribute
to the Institute's first threescore years of
life and effective work, in a country whose
early history is fast waxing old.
HARRIETTS KNIGHT SMITH.
BOSTON, March, 1898.
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AMONG the numerous educational
institutions of Europe and America
there is doubtless not one so unique and
individual in its character as the Lowell
Institute of Boston, a foundation which
has existed for almost sixty years, with-
out ostentation, and with no written his-
tory, yet whose influences have been so
far-reaching that it has taken rank as one
of the noblest -of American institutions,
and is perhaps even better known among
many circles in the Old World, through
the men eminent in literature, science,
and art who have crossed the sea to give
before it courses of lectures. It is so
substantially endowed as to be able at
all times to command almost any man it
may name as lecturer, and to remunerate
him generously for the careful preparation
which it always demands.
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To understand how the Lowell Insti-
tute came into being, one must look
backward and learn something of the
intellectual life of early New England.
In the old days the rigorous Puritan con-
science forbade all worldly amusements ;
and the playhouse, above all, was abso-
lutely prohibited. Courses of lectures on
religious subjects, however, were encour-
aged as essential to the training of the
young. These lectures, which in Massa-
chusetts were numerous, became so long
and burdensome, although after all they
seem to have been the delight of the
Boston people, that in 1639 tne General
Court took exception to the length of
them and to the ill effects resulting from
their frequency, whereby it was claimed
that "poor people were greatly led to
neglqct their affairs, to the great hazard
also of their health, owing to their long
continuance into the night." Boston
expressed strong dislike at this legislative
interference, "fearing that the precedent
might enthrall them to the civil power,
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and besides be a blemish upon them with
their posterity, as though they needed to
be regulated by the civil magistrate, and
raise an ill-savor of their coldness, as if it
were possible for the people of Boston to
complain of too much preaching." The
magistrates, fearing trouble, were content
to apologize and abandon their scheme
of shortening the lectures or diminishing
their number, resting satisfied with a
general understanding " that assemblies
should break up in such season that
people dwelling a mile or two off might
be at home before late night-fall."
With the British troops in the Revo-
lutionary period came the first American
theatrical performances, — given by the
redcoats as simple matters of diversion in
their rather stupid existence. The more
worldly-minded of the colonists were to
some extent affected by the curiosity, at
least, which these plays awakened.
Instruction by means of lectures had
always been a favorite method among
New Englanders, so much so that when
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theatrical plays were later attempted in
Boston, during the autumn of 1792, it
was found necessary to call them " moral
lectures" in order to secure public interest.
College professors taught their classes
by means of lectures, and instruction in
the professional schools of law, medicine,
and theology was also largely given in the
same manner. These professors and the
clergymen were called upon to deliver not
a few such lectures for the benefit of the
various communities, while the lawyer, if
the town had one, was also expected to
assist, and the village doctor, seldom a
ready writer, now and then contributed a
discourse of a practical if less pretentious
character. Almost any one, therefore,
possessed of an idea and the least facility
in expression was quite certain of being
asked to deliver himself of it in public,
for a fee ranging from five to fifty dollars,
according to the standing of the individual
and the financial ability of the society em-
ploying him. A high city official, a gen-
tleman with one lecture and that verbose
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and extravagrant, boasted at the end of a
season during this period, that "he had
delivered his one lecture ninety times, and
for ten dollars at each delivery." Wen-
dell Phillips at a later date delivered his
famous lecture on " The Lost Arts " two
thousand times, we are told.
He could name his own time and price
for it : audiences were carried away and
were in almost a constant state of ap-
plause, during its delivery ; every para-
graph seemed to elicit especial response.
When asked by a near friend how it was
possible to secure such an effect at the
close of each sentence, the lecturer re-
plied that "when he found that one
form would not do it, he altered the
phraseology ; that not succeeding, he made
other changes, or substituted another
paragraph, until the whole was satisfac-
tory."
The mention of Phillips of course
brings us to the time of the New England
lyceum. Agencies were established to or-
ganize the required courses of lectures, and
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for a percentage to attend to all necessary
details. It was not " good form " in an
influential family not to encourage some
one or more of these lecture courses, and
generally the tickets were readily sold at
prices which insured pecuniary success.
From 1825 to 1850 or later lectures may
be said to have been epidemic in New
England. Various organizations, like the
Mercantile Library Association in Boston
(composed of young merchants and clerks),
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, the Mechanics' Institutes and
others, provided courses of lectures to re-
plenish their funds. At times the people
seemed to become satiated with the more
serious discourses, and various novelties
were introduced to sustain the public in-
terest, like the interpolation of a concert
or two or the exhibition of a juggler. In
some localities really solid work was at-
tempted, like continuous courses on liter-
ary, historical, or scientific subjects. These,
however, were usually but partially suc-
cessful financially, and it was difficult to
THE ODEON
Corner of Federal and Franklin Streets, Boston
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obtain lecturers of sufficient ability or
public spirit to undertake such ventures.
The prejudice against the theatre had
not subsided, but was rather intensified.
The theatre itself, as it was then con-
ducted, was largely responsible for this.
Boston's first building especially appro-
priated to public amusements was Concert
Hall, erected in 1756, at the head of Han-
over Street. It was designed for concerts,
dancing, and other entertainments, and was
doubtless the place in which, for the most
part, the British officers conducted their
amusements while in possession of the
town. A law of the province, passed in
1750, prohibited theatrical exhibitions
under a severe penalty. This law was
considered "unconstitutional, inexpedient,
and absurd " ; and years later, in obedi-
ence to public wishes, the theatre in Fed-
eral Street, at the corner of Franklin, was
built and opened — in 1794.
During the time when the English held
Boston, the North End, in the vicinity
of Copp's Hill and North Square, was
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the court end of the town. But after the
Revolution the neighborhood in which
the theatre was built had become the resi-
dential centre of the wealth and refine-
ment of Boston. Near here were the
Federal Street Church (afterward Dr.
Channing's) and Trinity Church on Sum-
mer Street, besides the only Roman
Catholic Church in the city, and its
bishop's house, together with many hand-
some private residences.
In 1796 the Haymarket Theatre was
built at the foot of the Common, near
Avery Street; later the Washington,
Tremont, Lion, and National Theatres
and the Howard Athenaeum, the latter on
the site of Miller's Tabernacle, a great
barn-like structure, occupied by the Mil-
lerites, who flourished in the early forties.
These theatres were all constructed after
the manner of the English theatres of that
period — with " refreshment rooms " so
called, which were in reality common grog-
shops, contiguous to them or within easy
access, with an entrance directly from the
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pit and the first row of boxes. Free ad-
mission was granted to women to the
"third row." To make no mention,
therefore, of the performances of the
poor, degraded stage, these places were
in themselves sufficiently demoralizing to
condemn them to the religious and re-
spectable of the community. This reli-
gious element resolved "that the theatre
must go, and go forever." The Federal
Street Theatre had already been taken by
the Boston Academy of Music ; and under
the direction of the president, Mr. Samuel
A. Eliot (the father of President Eliot of
Harvard University), changed into the
Odeon. The National, or Warren, sub-
sequently died of inanition. The Tre-
mont Theatre building still remained.
The Baptist denomination secured this,
and made it over into Tremont Temple,
dedicating it in 1839, "henceforth to re-
ligious purposes," while it was openly
declared that "there was never to be
another theatre in Boston."
These, then, were the conditions of the
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educational and amusement life of New
England preceding the foundation of the
Lowell Institute. People were yet de-
sirous of intermingling instruction with
their diversions, but much profitless work
was being done in the miscellaneous, de-
sultory lecturing which, after the theatres
were closed, seemed the only recreation
left to the people. During the winter of
1837-38 twenty-six courses of lectures
were delivered in Boston, not including
those courses which consisted of less than
eight lectures ; and it is estimated that
they were attended by about thirteen
thousand persons. These facts sufficiently
show the importance and the popularity
of the lectures at this time in the neigh-
borhood of Boston, and the questions of
reform and improvement involved.
In two points this lecture system was
evidently defective. First, the means of
the organizations under which the lectures
were given were usually too meagre to
induce men of talent and broad culture
to undertake the preparation of thorough
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and systematic courses ; therefore the
work was almost wholly miscellaneous,
and no thorough series upon any particu-
lar branch of knowledge could be per-
manently sustained under such financial
conditions. Secondly, it was evident that
the system contained no principle for a
steady improvement in the nature of the
instruction it could furnish, unless it could
raise the standard of the literary character
of its work.
Mr. John Lowell, Jr., whose public
spirit, farsightedness, and generosity, al-
ways exercised with the modesty of which
the Lowell Institute is but typical, was
the individual who solved for New Eng-
land the problem of the higher lecture for
the average citizen — which in reality
closely resembles what the leading col-
leges and universities elsewhere are now
establishing in what is known as univer-
sity extension. This plan of Mr. Lowell's
was in harmony with the New England
lecture system, yet went beyond it by
making its work systematic and thorough.
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The confiding of the whole management
of the Institute, financial and intellectual,
to one individual is its most marked pe-
culiarity, distinguishing it from all other
similar endowments. In his will Mr.
Lowell thus prescribes : —
" I do hereby constitute and appoint the
trustees of the Boston Athenaeum for the time
being to be visitors of the said trust fund, with
power to require accounts of the administration
thereof and to compel the appropriation thereof
to the use aforesaid, but without any power or
authority to prescribe or direct by whom the
said lectures shall be given, nor the subjects
thereof; considering it best to leave that high
personal responsibility upon the trustee or trus-
tees of the fund for the time being.
" Each trustee shall appoint his successor,
within a week after his accession to the office,
in order that no failure of a regular nomination
may take place.
" In selecting a successor the trustee shall
always choose in preference to all others some
male descendant of my grandfather, John
Lowell, provided there be one who is compe-
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tent to hold the office of trustee, and of the
name of Lowell."
Mr. Lowell came of a distinguished
New England family, whose later descend-
ants have at the present day an inter-
national renown in the departments of
science and law. Of John Lowell, Jr.,
it has been said : " He was a young Bos-
tonian intended by nature for a states-
man, whom the caprice of fortune had
made a merchant."
The great-grandfather of John Lowell,
Jr., was the first minister of Newburyport.
His grandfather, Judge John Lowell, was
among those who enjoyed the public con-
fidence in the times which tried men's
souls, and bore his part in the greatest
work recorded in the annals of constitu-
tional liberty, — the American Revolution.
In 1779 h£ was chosen a member of
the convention for framing a constitution
of state government.
He it was who in 1780 introduced the
clause in the Massachusetts Bill of Rights,
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under which the Supreme Court of Massa-
chusetts freed every slave in the state who
sought his freedom.
This was the first prohibition of human
slavery in any statute or constitution which
was ever written, and every loyal Ameri-
can should be willing to accord to Judge
John Lowell his reverent gratitude for
this momentous and historic act of patriot-
ism.
In 1781 he served in the Continental
Congress, — and on the adoption of the
constitution, he was appointed by Wash-
ington a judge of the District Court of
the United States, and later chief justice
of the Circuit Court.
Of the three sons of Judge Lowell, the
eldest, John, was an eminent lawyer and
writer upon political and agricultural sub-
jects. His only son was John Amory
Lowell. The second, Francis Cabot
Lowell, the father of the founder of the
Institute, was a merchant, who during the
War of 1812 conceived the idea of manu-
facturing in this country the cotton goods
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which he had been wont to import from
India, and by reinventing the power-loom
did more than any one else to establish
that industry in America. The young-
est, the Rev. Charles Lowell, was the
eminent Boston minister, the father of
several distinguished children, the young-
est of whom was James Russell Lowell.
John Lowell, Jr., like his father, was a
successful merchant. Early bereft of
wife and children, he passed the few
remaining years of his life in travel, and
died in Bombay, March 4, 1836. He
was only thirty-four years of age when
he made his will giving half of his prop-
erty to the support of public lectures for
the benefit of his fellow-citizens. This
sum bequeathed by Mr. Lowell, with its
accumulations, amounted at the time of
the opening of the lectures to nearly two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The
trustee appointed by the will was Mr.
John Amory Lowell, a cousin and inti-
mate friend of the founder, who thor-
oughly justified the expectation of his
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kinsman. When told by his lawyer that
he could find no one capable of carrying
out his purpose, Mr. Lowell replied, " I
know the man." During an administra-
tion of more than forty years John Amory
Lowell had the sole charge of the en-
dowment, selected the lecturers and the
subjects to be treated, and managed the
finances with such skill that the property
nearly doubled in his hands. Seldom has
so responsible a duty been imposed upon
any one man. But Mr. Lowell was
rarely endowed for the position. To his
eminent qualities of strong sense, great
courage, and large acquirement, which
enabled him to select wisely, he added
knowledge of affairs and great singleness
of purpose. Modest and retiring, he
never appeared in the management farther
than was absolutely necessary, but was
content with a silent authoritative con-
trol.
The list of the lectures and lecturers
subjoined will give some idea of the
amount of work involved, as well as the
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extent of the benefit which the commu-
nity must have derived from the estab-
lishment of this noble institution, — of
which the influences may be said to have
only begun, since it is to last forever.
By the terms of the will, as previously
described, the trustee for the time being
must appoint as his successor some de-
scendant of the grandfather of the founder
and of the name of Lowell, if a suitable
one can be found. Under the exercise
of this authority, the present trustee, Mr.
Augustus Lowell, has held the position
for the past fifteen years. Under his
administration the work of the Institute
has been extended by the establishment
of new courses of lectures, and the en-
largement of those already founded, until
now there are delivered annually between
five and six hundred lectures, — all under
Mr. Lowell's personal management. The
value of bringing all these riches of
knowledge to the very doors of Boston
and her suburbs, without money and
without price, is a continual reminder of
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the opulent wisdom of Mr. John Lowell,
Jr., in the founding of the Lowell Insti-
tute, and of the integrity with which the
trust is sustained and developed in influ-
ence and power.
Notable as has been the history of the
Lowell Institute, it has been unusually
fortunate in the management of affairs in
its relations with the public. These duties
have been delegated to one named the
curator by Mr. John Amory Lowell, the
first trustee, and therefore so termed at
the present time. The first curator, who
served for three years, was Dr. Jeffries
Wyman, the eminent comparative anato-
mist, whose early death took from the
ranks of American science one of its most
brilliant and thorough students ; of him
James Russell Lowell has said : —
" He widened knowledge and escaped the praise;
He wisely taught because more wise to
learn ;
He toiled for Science, not to draw men's
gaze,
But for her lore of self-denial stern."
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Associated with him from the com-
mencement, and his successor after 1842,
was Dr. Benjamin E. Cotting, who for a
period of fifty-eight years (until his death
May 22, 1897 — in his eighty-fifth year)
attended from the first discourse nearly
every lecture delivered, and had the re-
sponsibility of serving Mr. John Amory
Lowell and his son and successor in the
administration of the business connected
with the lectures, including the advertis-
ing and distribution of tickets, and the
arrangements in the several halls in which
the lectures have been given. These duties
require a man of affairs and ready adapt-
ability, acquainted with physical science
and modes of lecture demonstration, to-
gether with a readiness to catch the pe-
culiarities of the lecturers and to make
for each all necessary arrangements in a
way satisfactory to him.
In Dr. Cotting all these essentials were
united, and the Lowell Institute was most
judicious in retaining in its service for more
than half a century this gentleman, whose
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position in his profession of medicine and
surgery was of the highest, not only in its
practice, but in the life and literature of his
profession, — he having been successively
secretary, councillor, orator, and president
of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
Dr. Getting was ever recognized as a
gentleman of rare business instincts and
calm judgment, interblended with most
gracious social qualities, which rendered
his official relations with the leading men
of America and the Old World alike
pleasing to the lecturers and valuable to
the Lowell Institute.
In April, 1897, William Thompson
Sedgwick, professor of biology in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
succeeded to the curatorship, Dr. Cotting
having resigned this office on account of
advancing age and infirmities. Professor
Sedgwick's association with the Lowell
Free Courses in the Institute of Tech-
nology, and his familiarity with scientific
and other educational developments made
his appointment logical.
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On the evening of December 31, 1839,
the last day of the year, an interesting dis-
course was given in the Odeon, which
seated about two thousand persons, by
Edward Everett, consisting of a memoir
of Mr. John Lowell, Jr., together with
some anticipatory suggestions of the value
of such an institution. This discourse
was repeated on the evening of January 2,
1840. Then followed the regular courses
in a manner similar to that which has
since prevailed ; and the Lowell Institute
was established.
The first lectures were a course given
by Professor Benjamin Silliman of Yale
College, on geology. Mr. Silliman was
at that time one of the most noted of
American lecturers, a man prominent in
science, but whose reputation abroad was
perhaps chiefly due to his long and able
management of the periodical known as
Silliman s Journal. So great was his popu-
larity, that on the giving out of tickets for
his second course, on chemistry, the fol-
lowing season, the eager crowd filled the
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adjacent streets and crushed in the win-
dows of the " Old Corner Book Store,"
the place of distribution, so that provi-
sion for this had to be made elsewhere.
To such a degree did the enthusiasm of
the public reach at that time in its desire
to attend these lectures, that it was found
necessary to open books in advance to re-
ceive the names of subscribers, the num-
ber of tickets being, distributed by lot.
Sometimes the number of applicants for a
single course was eight or ten thousand.
From the advertisements of those days
we find that tickets were distributed, ac-
cording to necessity, to those who held
numbers divisible by 3, 4, or 5. This plan
was followed until the number of appli-
cants did not much exceed the number
of seats. When this occurred, the tickets
were advertised to be ready for delivery,
to adults only, on a certain date. At the
time and place appointed a line was formed,
that the first comers might be the first re-
ceivers of tickets. For some years past
a large hall has been secured, capable of
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receiving under cover several thousand
persons at a time, — so that applicants, no
matter how many or how eager, can be
arranged in line and receive their tickets
in the order of their coming.
The several lecture courses, with time,
place, and conditions for obtaining tickets,
are announced in certain Boston news-
papers, usually at least a week in advance
of each course. Such tickets, with re-
served seats, are good for the entire
course, but always to be shown at the
door. There are a limited number of
admission tickets, without reserved seats ;
while admission to single lectures may
also usually be obtained at the hall by
waiting in line for a few moments just
before the lecture.
During the season of 1895-96, a some-
what larger privilege was granted citizens,
in obtaining course tickets, by the an-
nouncement in connection with the adver-
tisement of lectures that any tickets with
reserved seats, which remained after the
line distribution, could be secured by appli-
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cants who enclosed stamped and addressed
envelopes to the lecture management.
This method has proved a great conven-
ience to the public, and larger audiences
have, in consequence, greeted the lecturers
since this additional favor was bestowed.
To prevent interruption and secure a
quiet audience, certain rules were adopted :
first, the closing of the hall doors the
•moment a lecturer began speaking, and
keeping them closed until he had con-
cluded. This rule was at first resisted to
such a degree that a reputable gentleman
was taken to the lockup and compelled to
pay a fine for kicking his way through an
entrance door. Finally the rule was sub-
mitted to, and in time praised and copied
— as, in certain measure, at the Boston
Symphony concerts. The lectures were
also limited to one hour ; and in general
the audiences have gradually been induced
to applaud the lecturer only when he enters
and retires.
The lectures were given in the Odeon
from their establishment in 1839 until
MARLBORO HOTEL
Showing passageway to the Marlboro Chapel
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1846, when that building was converted
into warehouses. The following season
they were given in Tremont Temple.
After this they were held in Marlboro
Chapel, previously a lecture-room formed
of an L of Marlboro Hotel on Wash-
ington Street. The hall itself was in
that mysterious square which only a
born Bostonian can understand. It was
bounded by Washington and Tremont,
Winter and Bromfield streets. Music
Hall was in the same square, and a close
neighbor to the Marlboro Chapel. The
entrance to the lecture-room was through
an unattractive arched passageway, which
all Bostonians of mature age will remember
for its aromatic odors and the resonant
notes of practising musicians thereabout.
This chapel had for some time previous
been the rendezvous of all the ultra asso-
ciations, which found it difficult to obtain
lecture-rooms elsewhere, being composed,
as Dr. Holmes puts it, of " lean, hungry,
savage anti-everythings." In 1846 it
was thoroughly remade into a reputable
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lecture-room ; and in it the Lowell lect-
ures were given until 1879, when again
commercialism invaded and it was closed
to educational purposes and given up to
traffic.
The best available hall was then found
after much search to be Huntington Hall,
in the Rogers Building of the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology. Its situ-
ation was thought, in 1879, to be quite
removed from the lecture centre of the
city ; now it is not only such a centre,
but nearly the centre of population of the
city itself.
In the spring of 1850 Mr. John Amory
Lowell, the first trustee, wished to estab-
lish in connection with the Lowell Institute
a free drawing-school. Dr. Cotting was re-
quested to undertake this work during Mr.
Lowell's absence in Europe. Two plans
were devised and presented in writing to
Mr. Lowell. He selected the one which
was afterward followed, principally on the
ground of its being the more elementary.
It was peculiar, in that it required the
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pupil to begin and continue through his
entire course to draw from real objects
only — "the round," as it is technically
called, from rectangular forms up to the
living models, and never from copies or
" flat surfaces." The principle and plan,
as well as most of the details, were of the
curator's devising. In few drawing-schools
in the country, if in any, had "the round"
found any place at all up to that date, —
and its exclusive use in none, so far as
known.
It was not easy to secure a suitable
teacher willing to undertake to carry out
this plan. By chance an artist was over-
heard to express at random views which
were similar to the curator's. After much
persuasion, and with great distrust on the
artist's part, his services were secured. He
proved a most successful teacher ; and
during its entire course of more than a
quarter of a century remained the school's
chief. Mr. Hollingsworth's enthusiasm
was the school's life ; his devotion its un-
failing support.
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The school began in the autumn of
1850. At first it met with much ridicule
from professional teachers, art critics, and
others; but it soon grew popular with its
pupils. Many curious and amusing anec-
dotes might be told of its early history and
later progress. Prominent teachers and
artists, some of whom later became famous,
at times attended the school to obtain its
peculiar advantages. Mr. Rollings worth
was an original, and his assistant, Mr.
William T. Carleton, had many valuable
parts.
The school was eminently successful in
establishing correct methods of drawing,
and had the satisfaction of being imitated
all over the country, almost to the entire
revolution in the teaching of drawing.
Nowadays no school is without its "real
objects" — on its programme, if not in
actual use.
In 1879, on the loss of its rooms in
Marlboro Chapel, the school, to the re-
gret of many students, came to an honor-
able end.
THE LOWELL DRAWING-SCHOOL ROOM
In Marlboro Chapel
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From December 31, 1839, to January,
1898, there have been given under the
auspices of the Lowell Institute four hun-
dred and twenty-seven regular courses of
lectures, — or four thousand and twenty
separate lectures ; these, with those re-
peated, bring the number to four thousand
three hundred and twenty-five, — all ab-
solutely free lectures, prepared by the best
minds of the age, and representing the
highest developments in all the various de-
partments of science, literature, and art.
In addition to these there have been
given five courses in the name of estab-
lished local societies (e.g. the Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and the Massachusetts
Historical Society) by representative mem-
bers named by the societies themselves.
Sixty-one such lectures, added to the num-
ber of regular and repeated lectures, make
the grand total five thousand four hun-
dred and twenty-five, given by three
hundred and fifty-two different lecturers.
Crude theories and plans for moral and
political reforms are not to be found in
jo The Lowell Institute
the Lowell lectures. The selection of
lectures and lecturers is made from a
broad and comprehensive knowledge of
the safe thought and intelligent study of
the time, and with an active sympathy
for the varied interests of the community.
The income of the fund, with the ex-
ception of one-tenth, which must annually
be added to the principal, is applied, in
strict accordance with the founder's de-
sires, directly to the maintenance of the
lectures, and never has been, or can be,
invested in buildings. Hence the gen-
erous remuneration, which in early days
was sometimes larger for a single course
of lectures than the annual salary of the
most distinguished professor in any Amer-
ican college or university. The same
liberality is yet a marked financial feature
of the Institute, its lecture fees continuing
to be much larger than those of any other
American educational institution.
In the long line of eminent men who
have lectured on their several specialties
for the Lowell Institute may be mentioned,
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in science, the names of Silliman, Lyell,
Agassiz, Gray, Levering, Rogers, Cooke,
Wyman, Peirce, Tyndall, Whitney, New-
comb, Ball, Proctor, Young, Langley,
Gould, Wallace, Geikie, Dawson, Cross,
G. H. Darwin, Farlow, and Goodale.
The four gentlemen who have given
the largest number of lectures, all of
which were illustrated by experiments, are
Professors Levering, Agassiz, Silliman,
and Cooke — Lovering leading the list
with one hundred and sixty-eight, followed
by Agassiz, who gave one hundred and
sixteen, — next to whom is Silliman, who
delivered ninety-six, while Dr. Cooke was
heard ninety-two times.
Among the lecturers on religious sub-
jects are the honored names of Palfrey
and Walker, Andrew P. Peabody, J. L. Di-
man, George P. Fisher, Richard S. Storrs,
Lyman Abbott, Mark Hopkins, Henry
Drummond, and William J. Tucker.
Literature, philosophy, art, history, and
education have been represented by men
like Edward Everett, Sparks, Felton,
32 The Lowell Institute
Bowen, J. R. Lowell, Child, Whipple,
Norton, William Everett, Barnard, Chan-
ning, Howells, Perkins, Bascom, Clapp,
Hale, Lanciani, Fiske, Bryce, and Eliot.
The course delivered by Oliver Wendell
Holmes in 1852-53 was exceptional;
being all freshly written lectures, of which
he said " that the ink thereon had hardly
time to dry," — and each of which was
concluded with a new and original poem.
James Russell Lowell's course in 1886-
87 on "Early English Dramatists" was
also a memorable one; indeed so popular
that great difficulty was experienced by
the management in handling the immense
audiences which applied during the even-
ings without tickets. i
Professor Drummond's course, and the
recent one by Edward Everett Hale on
"The Local History and Antiquities of
Boston," have drawn perhaps as large and
enthusiastic audiences as any in recent
years.
Among the many lecturers of the In-
stitute, there is one whose history is so
The Lowell Institute 33
interblended with its own, that he often
called himself "a child of the Lowell
Institute " ; and in this close relationship
both Dr. Josiah Parsons Cooke and the
Lowell Institute are to be felicitated. It
was the fulfilment of a relationship the
like of which may have suggested itself to
the far-sighted founder.
When a boy of thirteen years of age,
Josiah P. Cooke — as he told the Boston
schoolmasters in his address delivered to
them in 1878, on "The Elementary
Teaching of Physical Science" — attended
the lectures of Professor Silliman at the
Odeon. He was one among the throng
turned away from the Old Corner Book
Store, when the distribution of tickets
was stopped, at the time the windows
were crushed in by the eager appli-
cants. So great was his disappointment
on being unable to secure a ticket, that
his father, ever thoughtful, purchased from
a fortunate possessor, for a handsome
price, his much-prized ticket, that the
future great chemist might attend these
34 The Lowell Institute
lectures. Of them Dr. Cooke said : " At
these lectures I received my first taste of
real knowledge, and that taste awakened
an appetite which has never yet been
satisfied. A boy's pertinacity, favored by
a kind father's indulgence, found the
means of repeating in a small way most
of the experiments seen at the Lowell
Institute lectures, and thus it came to
pass that before I entered college I had
acquired a real, available knowledge of the
facts of chemistry. My early tastes and
inheritances were utterly at variance with
this interest in science, which was simply
determined by the associations which sat-
isfied that natural thirst for knowledge
which every child experiences to a greater
or less degree, and which I first found at
the Lowell Institute lectures."
At sixteen years of age, in the year
1844, the young student entered Harvard,
graduating in 1848. In September, 1849,
after a year's absence in Europe, he re-
turned to Harvard as a tutor of mathe-
matics ; and among his first pupils was
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the present president of the University.
At this time no chemistry was being
taught to undergraduates ; but within six
months Professor Cooke began to give
instruction in this science, in connection
with his other work. This continued
until December 30, 1850, when he was
formally appointed to the professorship
of chemistry, a position which he held
for the remainder of his life, a period of
forty-three years.
Dr. Cooke said of his preparation for
this work : " When I was unexpectedly
called upon to deliver my first course of
lectures in chemistry, the only laboratory
in which I had worked was the shed of
my father's house, on Winthrop Place,
Boston, and the only apparatus at my
command was what this boy's laboratory
contained. With these simple tools — or
because they were so simple — I gained
the means of success which determined
my career."
The first course of American lectures
illustrated by a stereopticon were those on
36 The Lowell Institute
" Glaciers," given by Professor Louis
Agassiz at the Lowell Institute, and illus-
trated for him by Dr. Cooke. The " ver-
tical lantern " with which Dr. Cooke
illustrated his own Lowell lectures on
"The Chemistry of the Non-Metallic
Elements," in the season of 1855-56,
was invented by him for use on this occa-
sion. The lantern has since become fa-
mous. But the desire to serve the Lowell
Institute was the inspiration of its inven-
tion. In this instance the Lowell Insti-
tute, in having thus served to develop the
genius of one who so long and success-
fully honored America's leading university
and the Institute itself in the successive
courses of scientific lectures delivered
under its auspices, besides for many years
serving the Academy of Arts and Sciences
as its president, reached the ideal of a per-
sonal influence for which the legacy was
provided. Dr. Cooke's association with the
institution is full of significance ; and his
life-long impulse to emphasize the influ-
ence which the endowment accomplished
The Lowell Institute 37
for him must ever be a matter of grati-
fication to the descendants of John
Lowell.
Noteworthy among the many things
to be considered in connection with the
Institute and its influence in Boston is
the quality of the audiences which it
usually assembles for the lectures. They
are trained audiences, and the attention
and interest which are given by them to
continuous courses of even deep scien-
tific lectures are remarkable. This has
always been recognized by the lecturers,
and especially by those from the Old
World, who have often revised their work
after their first appearance before the In-
stitute audience ; this being true even as
recently as when Professor Drummond
delivered his admirable course, after find-
ing that he had entirely underestimated
the intelligence of his average listener,
and so rewrote his entire course after
his arrival in Boston.
Another influence of such an estab-
lishment as the Lowell Institute, which,
38 The Lowell Institute
though not so obvious at first, is neverthe-
less distinct and worthy of notice, is that
on the lecturers themselves. One who is
going to lecture must consider what will
be his audience ; and if he is a careful
scientific man he will, in preparing such
lectures, study to make everything clear,
by statements couched in words of es-
tablished meaning readily understood by
the average intelligent listener not par-
ticularly versed in technicalities. In other
words, learned and scientific men must
make themselves clearly understood by
the average auditor. This necessity is
an influence which is most helpful for
lecturer and community alike; and this
good effect has often been seen and ac-
knowledged by the Institute's lecturers
themselves.
Literature has been enriched by the
publication in book form of many courses
of lectures prepared and first delivered
for the Lowell Institute. The recent ap-
pearance of Professor Drummond's work,
" The Ascent of Man," is a single illus-
The Lowell Institute 39
tration of this fact in this realm of
science.
The indirect influences of Mr. Lowell's
endowment are inestimable ; for it has
touched almost every educational insti-
tution in the United States. Professor
Agassiz's engagement as lecturer for the
Lowell Institute resulted in the establish-
ment of the Lawrence Scientific School
at Harvard, with this great man as its
head.
In 1842 the Prince of Canino, a natu-
ralist almost as ardent as Agassiz, opened
a correspondence with the latter regard-
ing a visit together to this country, in
which Agassiz was to be the Prince's
guest. Agassiz was then absorbed in the
publication of his great work on fossil
fishes, so that from year to year this
visit was postponed. In 1845 Agassiz
wrote the Prince : " I have received an
excellent piece of news, which I venture to
believe will greatly please you. The King
of Prussia, through the ever-thoughtful
mediation of Humboldt, will grant me fif-
40 The Lowell Institute
teen thousand francs for our scientific mis-
sion to America." At the suggestion of
Lyell, a mutual friend, Mr. John Amory
Lowell in this same year invited Agassiz
to come to Boston and deliver a course
of lectures before the Lowell Institute.
Thus encouraged by invitation and pecuni-
ary aid, he crossed the Atlantic in Octo-
ber, 1846, and in December made his
debut in America as a Lowell Institute lec-
turer. He was not accompanied, however,
by the Prince of Canino, who then found
this visit inexpedient. Hitherto Agassiz
had been the brilliant discoverer; now he
was to become the explorer and teacher.
He lectured, and was delighted with his
audience and the spirit of research that
his work aroused. The Lowell Institute
was intended by its founder to fertilize
the general mind, rather than to instruct
the select few ; consequently its audience,
democratic and composed of strongly
contrasted elements, had from the first a
marked attraction for Agassiz. A teacher
in the widest sense, who sought and found
The Lowell Institute 41
his pupils in every class, but who in the
Lowell Institute's audience for the first
time came into contact with the general
mass of the people on this common
ground, this relation strongly influenced
his final resolve to remain in this country.
This purpose was reached in 1 847 through
an offer of Mr. Abbott Lawrence, who
then expressed his willingness to found the
Lawrence Scientific School in connection
with Harvard University, and to guarantee
a salary to Agassiz as professor of zoology
and geology. Thereupon Agassiz ob-
tained an honorable discharge from his
European engagements, and fixed his
abode in this country, associating him-
self with Harvard's great scientific school.
Agassiz came to Harvard with a new
method of teaching : he brought power
and accuracy of observation, and accuracy
of record ; this revolutionized completely
the methods followed in all departments
of the college ; thereby giving a new im-
pulse to science throughout the entire
continent. In his son, Professor Alex-
42 The Lowell Institute
ander Agassiz, America has also inherited
from Agassiz a representative of the high-
est scientific ability and acquirement.
Professor Tyndall's enthusiasm for
American science and scholarship and
their development led him, after his
Lowell lectures, to give back to America
the ten thousand dollars he had received
for his American lectures in gifts for
scholarships to the University of Pennsyl-
vania, Columbia College, and Harvard
University. These institutions now have
men studying abroad as the result of Pro-
fessor Tyndall's interest in higher educa-
tion here, — a direct influence of the
Lowell Institute in having first led Pro-
fessor Tyndall to know us and appreciate
our possibilities.
In carrying out some other provisions
of the will, chiefly that in which it is
stated "that besides the free courses
given for the general public there may be
others given, more erudite and particular,
for students," the trustee, in 1866, en-
tered into an engagement with the Massa-
ROGERS BUILDING
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Lowell Institute 43
chusetts Institute of Technology, whereby
any persons, male or female, might, with-
out expense to themselves, attend courses
of lectures for more advanced students ;
the appointment of the lecturers and
the subjects of the lectures to be made
with the approval of the trustee. These
courses are generally given in the evening,
in the class-room of the professors ; from
year to year they are more or less varied,
in their entire scope including instruction
in mathematics, mechanics, physics, draw-
ing, chemistry, geology, natural history,
biology, English, French, German, history,
navigation and nautical astronomy, archi-
tecture and engineering. Of these lect-
ures (known as the Lowell free courses
of instruction in the Institute of Technol-
ogy) there have been given, during the
thirty-one years of their existence, four
thousand two hundred and sixty-five.
The only conditions of attendance on these
courses are : first, candidates must have
attained the age of eighteen years ; sec-
ondly, their applications must be made
44 , The Lowell Institute
in writing, addressed to the secretary of
the faculty of the Institute of Technol-
ogy, specifying the course or courses they
desire to attend, mentioning their present
or prospective occupation and the extent
of their preliminary training.
For many years past the Lowell Insti-
tute has also furnished instruction in
science to the school-teachers of Boston,
both by lessons and lectures, under the
supervision of the Boston Society of Nat-
ural History, and more recently has fur-
nished instruction by lectures to working-
men under the auspices of the Wells
Memorial Workingmen's Institute, upon
practical and scientific subjects. For the
purpose of promoting industrial art in
the United States, the trustee, in 1872,
also established the Lowell School ,of
Practical Design. The corporation of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
having approved the purpose and general
plan of the trustee of the Lowell Insti-
tute, assumed the responsibility of con-
ducting it ; and in the same year the first
HUNTINGTON HALL
Rogers Building
The Lowell Institute 45
pupils were admitted. The expenses of
this school are borne by the Lowell Insti-
tute, and tuition is free to all pupils.
The school occupies a drawing-room and
a weaving-room on Garrison Street. The
weaving-room affords students opportuni-
ties for working their designs into actual
fabrics of commercial size, in every variety
of material and of texture. The room is
supplied with two fancy chain-looms for
dress goods, three fancy chain-looms for
fancy woollen cassimeres, one gingham
loom and one Jacquard loom. The school
is constantly supplied with samples of all
the novelties in textile fabrics, such as
brocaded silks, ribbons, armures, and fancy
woollen goods. Students are taught the
art of making patterns for prints, ging-
hams, silks, laces, paper hangings, carpets,
oil-cloth, etc. The course is of three
years' duration, and embraces (i) techni-
cal manipulations ; (2) copying and varia-
tions of designs ; (3) original designs or
composition of patterns, ; (4) the making
of working drawings and finishing of de-
46 The Lowell Institute
signs. Instruction is given personally to
each student over his work, with occa-
sional general exercises. Information re-
garding this school is also obtained from
the secretary of the Institute of Technol-
ogy. The school has been most successful,
and in its practical results and extensive
influence is one of the noblest and most
helpful of the Lowell Institute's great
benefactions.
Such is the history of a truly noble en-
dowment, which has been well defined as
" a public beneficence to be kept in the
Lowell family and dispensed by it for the
public good."
The few sentences "penned with a tired
hand " by John Lowell, Jr., on the top of
a palace of the Pharaohs, were the expres-
sion of a great and liberal spirit in its last
aspiration for the welfare of home and
native land.
As we leave with our readers, in con-
clusion, the complete list of the lectures
and lecturers of these fifty-nine years,
reflecting that we have seen only its first
The Lowell Institute 47
half-century of existence, with the know-
ledge that so long as time lasts this
memorial of Mr. Lowell's interest in our
higher life will abide, we can but feel that
it already has fulfilled what Mr. Everett
in his opening address said it must ac-
complish.
" Let the foundation of Mr. Lowell's,"
he exclaimed, " stand on the principles
prescribed by him ; let the fidelity with
which it is now administered continue to
direct it; and no language is emphatic
enough to do full justice to its impor-
tance. It will be from generation to gen-
eration a perennial source of public good,
a dispensation of sound science, of useful
knowledge, of truth in its important asso-
ciations with the destiny of man. These
are blessings which cannot die. They will
abide when the sands of the desert shall
have covered what they have hitherto
spared of the Egyptian temples ; and
they will render the name of Lowell, in
all wise and moral estimation, more truly
illustrious than that of any Pharaoh en-
48
The Lowell Institute
graven on their walls. These endow-
ments belong to the empire of the mind,
which alone of human things is immortal ;
and they will remain as a memorial of his
Christian liberality, when all that is ma-
terial shall have vanished as a scroll."
PLAN OF HUNT1NGTON HALL
A List of Lecturers and the Subjects of
their Lectures in the Lowell Institute,*
1839-1:
No. of Lectures «... , i * QQQ AA No. of Lectures
Announced Dec- 31> 1839-40 Glven
I (r)t Hon. Edward Everett, LL.D.
Introductory. Memoir of John
Lowell, Jr 2
I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D.
Geology 24
8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D.
Evidences of Christianity . . 8
9(r) Prof. Thomas Nuttall, A.M.
Botany 18
1840-41
I2(r) Prof. Joseph Lovering, A.M.
Electricity and Electro-magnetism 24
iz(r) Jeffries Wyman, M.D.
Comparative Anatomy ... 24
12 Rev. James Walker, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D.
Chemistry 24
* Lectures maintained by the Lowell Institute, but not immediately
under its own management, are not included in this list (see pp. 42-46).
The titles of the lecturers and their subjects as here given are as a rule
those submitted for public announcement by the lecturers themselves.
t (r) signifies that the lectures were repeated before a second audience.
50 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D.
Evidences of Christianity . . 8
1841-42
iz(r) Charles Lyell, F.R.S.
Geology 24
8 Rev. John G. Palfrey, D.D.
Evidences of Christianity . . 8
12 (r) Prof. Joseph Levering, A.M.
Mechanical Laws of Matter . . 24
12 Rev. James Walker, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
I2(r) Prof. Benjamin Silliman, LL.D.
Chemistry 24
1842-43
I2(r) Prof. J. Lovering, A.M.
Astronomy 24
12 Prof. Jared Sparks, LL.D.
American History 12
12 Prof. J. Walker, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
I2(r) Prof. B. Silliman, LL.D.
Chemistry 24
1843-44
1 2 (r) George R. Glidden, Esq.
Ancient Egypt ..... 24
The Lowell Institute 51
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 (r) Prof. J. Levering, A.M.
Optics 24
12 Pres. Mark Hopkins, D.D.
Evidences of Christianity . . 12
I2(r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D.
Botany 24
1844-45
1 2 (r) Arthur Gilman, Esq.
Architecture 24
I2(r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers, F.G.S.
Geology 24
12 Prof. Alonzo Potter, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
I2(r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D.
Botany 24
1845-46
I2(r) Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S.
Geology 24
1 2 (r) i . Lieut. H. W. Halleck, United States
Army.
The Military Art 13
12 (r) Prof. Asa Gray, M.D.
Botany 24
12 (r) Prof. Joseph Lovering, A.M.
Astronomy 24
52 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures 1 QACAI* No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 (r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers, F.G.S.
Geology 24
12 Rt. Rev. A. Potter, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
12 (r) Prof. Louis Agassiz, M.D.
The Plan of Creation as shown
in the Animal Kingdom. One
French Lecture 25
1 2 (r) Prof. O. M. Mitchell.
Astronomy 24
1 2 Geo. S. Hillard, Esq.
Life and Writings of Milton . . 12
1847-48
1 2 (r) Prof. Eben N. Horsford.
Chemistry 24
12 Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
1 2 (r) Prof. L. Agassiz,
Ichthyology 24
8 Francis Bowen, A.M.
Systems of Philosophy as affect-
ing Religion 8
1848-49
1 2 (r) Prof. Adolphus L. Kceppen.
Ancient and Modern Athens . 24
The Lowell Institute 53
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 (r) Prof. L. Agassiz.
Comparative Embryology . . 24
12 (r) Prof. Jeffries Wyman, M.D.
Comparative Physiology ... 24
12 Prof. Francis Bowen, A.M.
Application of Ethical Science to
the Evidences of Religion . . 12
1 2 (r) Prof. Henry D. Rogers.
Application of Science to the Use-
ful Arts 24
1849-50
I2(r) Prof. Wm. H. Harvey, M.D.
Cryptogamia 24
12 Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
1 2 Geo. T. Curtis, Esq.
Constitution of the United States 1 2
1 2 (r) Prof. Edward Lasell.
Physical Forces 24
12 (r) Prof. James F. W. Johnston, F.R.S.
Agriculture 24
1850-51
12 Prof. Francis Bowen, A.M.
Political Economy . . . . 12
12 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Functions of Life in Lower Ani-
mals . 1 2
54 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Rev. Geo. W. Blagden, D.D.
Evidences of Revealed Religion . 1 2
12 Prof. Arnold Guyot, Ph.D.
Physical Geography . . . . 12
1851-52
12 Rev. Orville Dewey, D.D.
Natural Religion. " Problem of
Human Destiny " . . . . 12
12 Prof. C. C. Felton, LL.D.
Greek Poetry 12
12 B. A. Gould, Jr., Ph.D. The Progress of
Astronomy in the last Half-
century 12
12 Francis Bowen, A.M.
Origin and Development of the
English and American Consti-
tutions 12
1852-53
12 Sir Charles Lyell, F.R.S.
Geology, etc 12
1 2 Chas. B. Goodrich, Esq.
Science of Government, etc. . 1 2
12 Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D.D.
Natural Religion 12
12 Prof. C. C. Felton.
Life of Greece . . 12
The Lowell Institute 55
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
ix Dr. O. W. Holmes.
English Poetry of the 191)1
Century 12
1853-54
10 Fellows of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences . . . . 10
(*) Prof. Joseph Levering.
What is Matter ?
(^) Prof. Joseph Levering.
What are Bodies ?
(f) Charles Jackson, Jr.
History of the Useful Arts.
(</) Prof. H. L. Eustis.
The Britannia Bridge.
0) Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr.
Light.
(/) Prof. A. Guyot.
Psychological and Physical Char-
acters of the Nations of Europe
compared with those of the
American People.
(£) Prof. A. Guyot.
The same subject continued.
(£) Dr. A. A. Gould.
Aquatic Life.
(/) Prof. Joel Parker.
The Science of the Law.
56 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
(y) Prof. H. D. Rogers.
The Arctic Regions.
12 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Natural History 12
12 Prof. J. Lovering.
Electricity 12
4 E. H. Davis.
Mounds and Earthworks of the
Mississippi Valley .... 4
12 Rev. Orville Dewey.
Problem of Human Destiny . . 12
1854-55
12 Prof. C. C. Felton.
On the Downfall and Resurrec-
tion of Greece 12
12 Hon. John G. Palfrey.
New England History . . 12
24 James Russell Lowell.
English Poetry 24
6 Rev. Frederic H. Hedge.
Mediaeval History .... 6
1855-56
1 2 Rev. Orville Dewey.
Education of the Human Race . 1 2
The Lowell Institute 57
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Rev. W. H. Milburn.
Early History and Settlement of
the Mississippi Valley ... 12
6 Geo. W. Curtis.
Contemporaneous English Fiction 6
12 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr.
Chemistry of the Non-metallic
Elements 12
1 2 Prof. E. Vitalis Scharb.
The Great Religious and Philo-
sophical Poems of Modern
Times . 1 2
1856-57
12 Dr. Geo. W. Burnap.
Anthropology 12
6 Prof. Guglielmo Gajani.
Early Italian Reformers ... 6
6 Lieut. M. F. Maury.
Winds and Currents of the Sea . 6
12 Rev. Henry Giles.
Human Life in Shakespeare . . 12
6 Dr. David B. Reid.
Ventilation and Acoustics . . 6
12 Rev. Wm. R. Alger.
The History of the Doctrine of a
Future Life . 1 2
58 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Prof. Wm. B. Rogers.
Elementary Laws of Physics . . 12
1857-58
12 Rev. Henry W. Bellows.
Treatment of Social Diseases . 12
1 2 Reinhold Solger.
History of the Reformation . . 12
1 2 Rev. Thomas T. Stone.
English Literature .... 12
12 Prof. Francis Bowen.
Practical English Philosophers and
Metaphysicians from Bacon to
Sir Wm. Hamilton . . 12
1 2 Rev. John Lord.
Lights of the New Civilization . 12
4 Dr. Isaac Ray.
Mental Hygiene ..... 4
1858-59
12 Prof. F. D. Huntington.
On the Structure, Relations, and
Offices of Human Society —
as illustrating the Power, Wis-
dom, and Goodness of the
Creator . 1 2
The Lowell Institute
59
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Prof. William B. Rogers.
On Water and Air in their Me-
chanical, Chemical, and Vital
Relations 12
12 Prof. S. G. Brown.
British Orators 12
8 Rev. William R. Alger.
Poetical Ethics 8
12 Edwin P. Whipple.
The Literature of the Age of
Elizabeth 12
1859-60
12 Prof. C. C. Felton.
Constitution and Orators of
Greece 12
1 2 Dr. Reinhold Solger.
Rome, Christianity, and the Rise
of Modern Civilization . . 12
1 2 Rev. Thomas Hill.
Mutual Relation of the Sciences . 1 2
12 Prof. Joseph Lovering.
Astronomy 12
12 Rev. Henry Giles.
Social Culture and Character . 1 2
1860-61
12 Rev. James Walker.
Philosophy of Religion ... 12
6o The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of ^Lectures
Announced Given
12 Hon. George P. Marsh.
Origin and History of the English
Language 12
I 2 Rev. Mark Hopkins.
Moral Philosophy . . . . 12
12 Prof. Benjamin Peirce.
Mathematics in the Cosmos . . 12
1 2 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, Jr.
Chemistry of the Atmosphere
as illustrating the Wisdom,
Power, and Goodness of God 1 2
1861-62
12 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Methods of Study in Natural
History 12
12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis.
Natural Religion 12
12 Rev. Robert C. Waterston.
Art in Connection with Civiliza-
tion 12
12 Prof. Wm. B. Rogers.
Application of Science to Art . 1 2
12 Guglielmo Gajani.
Italian Independence . . . . 12
1862-63
12 Rev. Henry Giles.
Historic Types of Civilized Man 1 2
The Lowell Institute 61
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Capt. William Steffen.
Military Organization ... 6
1 2 Charles Eliot Norton.
The Thirteenth Century ...12
12 Prof. Geo. W. Greene.
American Revolution ... 12
12 Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody.
Natural Religion 12
6 Capt. E. Lesdakelyi.
Field Service 6
1863-64
1 2 Prof. Henry W. Alden.
Structure of Paganism ... 12
10 Prof. Daniel Wilson.
Ethnical Archaeology . . . . i o
6 Rev. J. C. Fletcher.
Man and Nature in the Tropics 6
1 2 William Everett.
The University of Cambridge,
England 12
1 2 Prof. Henry James Clark.
The Origin of Life ....12
12 Henry Barnard.
National Education .... 12
1864-65
12 Rev. Henry Giles. The Divine Element
in Human Nature . 12
62 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 Rev. J. C. Zachos.
English Poets 12
1 2 Prof. William D. Whitney.
Language and the Study of Lan-
guage 12
3 Col. Francis J. Lippitt.
On Entrenchments .... 3
1 2 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, Jr.
The Sunbeam, its Nature and its
Power 12
6 J. Foster Kirk.
Life and Manners in the Middle
Ages 6
8 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Glaciers and the Ice Period . 8
1865-66
1 2 Prof. Francis Bowen.
Finances of the War . . . . 12
6 Rev. E. Burgess.
Indian Archaeology .... 6
12 Richard Frothingham.
American History, Union . . 12
12 Samuel Eliot, LL.D.
Evidences of Christianity . . 12
1 2 Prof. J. P. Lesley.
Anthropology 12
The Lowell Institute 63
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 Rev. J. C. Fletcher.
Pompeii 12
6 Edward A. Samuels.
Music and its History ... 6
12 Prof. Joseph Levering.
Sound and Light 12
12 Prof. P. A. Chadbourne.
Natural Religion 12
4 Dr. Burt G. Wilder.
The Silk Spider of South Carolina 4
186e-67
12 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Brazil 12
12 Chas. S. Peirce, S.D.
The Logic of Science and Induc-
tion 12
12 T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S.
Chemical and Physical Geography I 2
12 Wm. P. Atkinson.
English Literature . . . . 12
12 E. Geo. Squier.
The Inca Empire . . . . 12
12 Rev. E. Burgess.
The Antiquity of Man ... 12
12 R. H. Dana, Jr., LL.D.
International Law 12
64 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Rev. W. L. Gage.
Biblical Geography .... 12
1867-68
12 Win. T. Brigham.
Volcanic Phenomena . . . . 12
12 Hon. Emory Washburn.
Comparative Jurisprudence . . 12
12 Mark Hopkins, D.D.
Moral Science 12
12 Robert Morris Copeland.
Improved Agriculture and Land-
scape Gardening . . . . 12
12 Capt. N. E. Atwood.
Fisheries of Massachusetts Bay . 1 2
12 Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson.
Education 12
12 Rev. A. P. Peabody.
Reminiscences of European Trav-
els 12
12 Howard Payson Arnold.
The Great Exposition, Paris, of
1867 12
1868-69
12 Robert von Schlagintweit.
Orography and Physical Geogra-
phy of High Asia . . . . 12
The Lowell Institute 65
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Alex. Melville Bell.
Elocution 6
12 Rev. A. A. Livermore.
The Debt of the World to Chris-
tianity 12
1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr.
Electricity. ......12
1 2 Geo. W. Greene.
The American Revolution . . 12
13 Members of Massachusetts Historical So-
ciety : The Early History of
Massachusetts 13
(a) Robert C. Winthrop.
Introductory.
(£) Rev. George E. Ellis.
Aims and Objects of the Founders.
(r) Rev. George E. Ellis.
Treatment of Intruders.
(//) Samuel T. Haven.
Grants under the Great Council.
(*) William Brigham.
The Plymouth Colony.
(/*) Prof. Emory Washburn.
Slavery in Massachusetts.
(£) Rev. Charles W. Upham.
Records of Massachusetts.
66 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
(£) Prof. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The Medical Profession in Mas-
sachusetts.
(/') Samuel Eliot.
Efforts for the Indians,
(y) Rev. Chandler Robbins.
The Regicides.
(£) Prof. Joel Parker.
Religious Legislation.
(/) Rev. Edward Everett Hale.
Puritan Politics.
(»z) George B. Emerson.
Education in Massachusetts.
12 Rev. Ed. A. Lawrence.
Providence in History . . 12
12 Alexander Hyde, A.M.
Agriculture 12
6 Dr. F. G. Lemercier.
Physiology of Man, Animals, and
Plants 6
1869-70
12 Prof. L. Agassiz.
Deep Sea Dredging . . . . 12
12 John Bascom.
Mental Philosophy . . . . 12
12 Wm. H. Channing.
Progress of Civilization . . 12
The Lowell Institute 67
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 W. H. Niks.
Geological History, Ancient and
Modern 12
1 2 Hurt G. Wilder.
Hands and Feet of Mammalia . 1 2
12 Rev. E. E. Hale.
Divine Method in Human Life . 12
12 Members of the American Social Science
Association 12
O) C. C. Perkins.
Art Education in the United States.
(J) F. L. Olmsted.
Public Parks,
(f) Prof. Francis Bacon.
Civilization and Health.
(</) Gen. T. A. Duncan.
The American System of Patents.
0) Prof. D. C. Gilman.
Scientific Technical Instruction.
(/) Prof. B. Peirce.
The Coast Survey.
(£) Prof. Raphael Pumpelly.
The Chinese Question.
(£) E. L. Godkin.
Rationalism in Legislation.
(;') William B. Ogden.
Material Growth of the North-
west.
68 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
(j) George Derby, M.D.
Air in its Relation to Health.
(J) Pres. T. D. Woolsey.
The Sphere of Public Power.
(/) David Dudley Field.
The Representation of Minorities.
1 2 Albert S. Bickmore.
China and the Chinese ... 12
1870-71
12 Alex. M. Bell.
Shakespeare and his Plays . . 12
12 Wm. D. Howells.
Italian Poets of Our Century . 1 2
1 2 Edward S. Morse.
Natural History 12
12 Thomas Hill, D.D., LL.D.
Natural Sources of Theology . 12
12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis.
The Provincial History of Mas-
sachusetts 12
12 Rev. R. C. Waterston.
-N The Rocky Mountains and the
Sierra Nevada of California . 1 2
12 Prof. Geo. P. Fisher.
The Reformation 12
1 2 Pres. Paul A. Chadbourne.
Instinct 1 2
The Lowell Institute 69
No. of Lectures i QTI "o No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 Edward Lawrence.
The Philosophy of Travel . . 12
12 Alex. M. Bell.
Modern British Authors ... 12
12 Wm. T. Brigham.
Water as a Geological Agent . 1 2
1 2 Charles C. Perkins.
Grecian Art 12
12 Rev. Mark Hopkins.
An Outside Study of Man . . 12
12 Chas. F. Hart.
Geology of Brazil 12
12 N. S. Shaler.
Geology of Mountain Ranges . 1 2
12 Wm. P. Atkinson.
English Literature . . . . 12
1872-73
6 Prof. John Tyndall.
Light and Heat . . . , . 6
1 2 Walter Smith.
Linear Perspective . . . . 12
1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr.
The New Chemistry ... 12
12 Sanborn Tenney.
The Physical Structure and Re-
sources of United States 1 2
yo The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Isaac I. Hayes, M.D.
Arctic Discoveries . . . . 12
12 Hon. B. G. Northrop.
American and Foreign Education 1 2
12 Prof. G. L. Goodale.
Vegetable Physiology . . 12
12 B. W. Hawkins.
Comparative Anatomy . . 12
4 C. E. Brown-Sequard.
Physiology of Mental Faculties . 4
1873-74
1 2 Richard A. Proctor.
Astronomy 12
6 J. T. Fields, Esq.
Modern English Literature . . 6
1 2 Prof. John Bascom.
Philosophy of English Literature 12
12 Prof. E. C. Pickering.
Practical Applications of Elec-
tricity 12
12 Prof. Samuel Kneeland.
Rocky Mts., California, and
Sandwich Islands . . . . 12
6 C. E. Brown-Sequard, M.D.
Nervous Force 6
12 Chas. C. Perkins, A.M.
Italian Art 1 2
The Lowell Institute 71
No. of Lectures lfi"d 71; ^°- °^ Lectures
Announced Given
12 Rev. A. P. Peabody, D.D.
Christianity and Science ... 12
3 Prof. Bonamy Price.
Currency and Finance ... 3
I 2 John Trowbridge.
Recent Advances in Electricity . 1 2
6 Prof. Samuel Kneeland.
Iceland 6
12 C. F. Adams, Jr., Esq.
Railroads and their Development 1 2
12 Prof. W. H. Niles.
The Atmosphere and its Phe-
nomena 12
12 Rev. H. G. Spaulding.
Antiquities of Rome, Christian
and Pagan 12
5 John T. Wood, B.A., F.R.S.
The Great Temple of Diana . 5
1875-76
I 2 Richard A. Proctor.
Astronomical Subjects . . 12
1 2 Rev. W. L. Gage.
Wayside Notes in Palestine . . 12
6 Wm. A. Hovey, Esq.
Coal, Steam, Iron, Steel, Gas,
and Glass . 6
72 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lecture*
Announced Given
6 F. B. Hough, Esq.
Forestry ....... 6
12 Prof. S. Tenney.
Geology 12
12 Prof. C. A. Young.
Popular Astronomy . . . . 12
12 Prof. Geo. P. Fisher.
The Rise of Christianity ...12
1 2 Rev. James T. Bixby.
The Physical Theory of Religious
Faith 12
1876-77
12* Prof. C. E. Norton.
Church Building in the Middle
Ages 12
6 Luigi Monti.
Modern Italian Literature . . 6
12 Pres. P. A. Chadbourne.
Natural Religion 12
1 2 Members of the American Social Science
Association 12
(4) Samuel Eliot.
Educational Service Reform.
* Prof. Norton began this course the previous year, but on account
of his ill health the course was postponed, after two lectures, to the season
of 1876-77.
The Lowell Institute 73
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
(J) Prof. B. Peirce.
Form, Law, and Plan in the
Universe.
(<•) F. B. Sanborn.
The Province of Social Science.
(</) Emory Washburn.
American Jurisprudence.
(0 David A. Wells.
Financial Depressions.
(/) Pres. Runkle.
Russian Industrial Education.
(£•) Gamaliel Bradford.
Comparative Politics.
(£) Prof. Franz von Holtzendorff.
European Jurisprudence.
(/) Prof. W. R. Nichols.
Sanitary Chemistry.
(» Carroll D. Wright.
The Census of Massachusetts.
(£) Prof. Henry Adams.
Woman's Rights in History.
(/) Prof. F. A. Walker.
The Labor question.
6 Prof. N. Cyr.
Contemporary France ... 6
12 Rev. H. G. Spaulding.
Roman and Pagan Life in the
First Century 12
74 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Prof. Wm. R. Ware.
Architecture 12
1 2 Rev. Edward C. Guild.
English Lyric Poetry in the
Seventeenth Century . . 12
1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child.
Chaucer 12
1877-78
12 Prof. Carl Semper.
Conditions of Existence of Ani-
mal Life 12
1 2 Bayard Taylor.
German Literature . . . . 12
1 2 Gamaliel Bradford, Esq.
History of British India ... 12
12 Wm. Everett.
Latin Poets and Poetry ... 12
12 Chas. C. Perkins.
History of the Art of Engraving . 1 2
1878-79
6 Prof. Wm. James, M.D.
The Brain and the Mind . . 6
1 2 Rev. Selah Merrill.
Recent Explorations of the East . 1 2
6 Chas. S. Minot, S.D.
The Phenomena of Animal Life . 6
The Lowell Institute 75
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke, Jr.
Crystals and their Optical Rela-
tions 12
6 Chas. Wyllis Elliott.
Household Life and Art in Middle
Ages 6
4 Gen. L. P. Di Cesnola.
Cyprus, its Ancient Art and His-
tory 4
1 2 Prof. Francis A. Walker.
Money 12
1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child.
Popular Ballads of England and
Scotland 12
6 Prof. Benj. Peirce.
Ideality in the Physical Sciences . 6
12 Rev. Geo. E. Ellis, D.D.
The Red Man and the White
Man 12
6 Thomas Davidson, Esq.
Modern Greece 6
1879-80
6 Prof. Archibald Geikie.
Geographical Evolution ... 6
12 Prof. Joseph Levering.
Physical Science 12
j6 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Prof. W. G. Farlow.
Lower Orders of Plant Life . . 12
1 2 Prof. John Trowbridge.
Philosophy of Science ... 12
2 Rt. Hon. Lyon Playfair, M.P., F.R.S., LL.D.
(«) Inosculation of the Arts and
Sciences.
(J) Public Health .... 2
6 Hon. Carroll D. Wright.
The Labor Question Ethically
considered 6
12 Prof. W. H. Niles.
Physical Geography of the Land 1 2
12 Rev. J. F. Clarke, D.D.
Epochs and Events in Religious
History 12
6 Prof. Henry W. Haynes.
Pre-historic Archaeology of Europe 2
1 2 Prof. J. L. Diman.
The Theistic Argument ... 12
6 Henry Cabot Lodge, Esq.
English Colonies in America,
1760 6
1880-81
1 2 Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins.
Primeval Man . .... 1 2
The Lowell Institute 77
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Luigi Monti.
Dante, and his Times and Works 6
6 Wm. F. Apthorp.
The Growth of the Art of
Music 6
12 O. W. Holmes, Jr.
The Common Law . . . . 12
4 Geo. Makepeace Towle.
Famous Men of Our Day . . 4
6 Thomas Davidson.
The History of Greek Sculpture . 6
6 Chas. Carleton Coffin.
Machinery and Modern Civiliza-
tion 6
12 Rev. E. C. Bolles.
Historic London 12
3 G. P. Lathrop.
Symbolism of Color in Nature,
Art, Literature, and Life . . 3
10 Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, D.D.
The Divine Origin of Christianity I o
6 Prof. M. Coit Tyler.
American Literature of the Revo-
lution 6
i Rev. W. H. Milburn.
Recollections of Thomas Carlyle I
7 8 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures •, OQ1 fio No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Edward A. Freeman, D.C.L.
The English People in their Three
Homes 6
12 Gamaliel Bradford, Esq.
Modern Europe, Social and Poli-
tical 12
12 Prof. Simon Newcomb.
History of Astronomy ... 12
8 James Bryce, D.C.L., M.P.
Past and Present of the Greek and
Turkish East 8
1 2 Prof. Edward S. Morse.
Japan 12
6 Edward B. Drew, A.M.
China 6
12 James F. Clarke, D.D.
The Comparative Theology of
Ethnic and Catholic Religions 12
6 Hjalmar H. Boyesen, Ph.D.
The Icelandic Saga Literature . 6
6 Horace E. Scudder.
Childhood in Literature and Art 6
The Lowell Institute 79
No. of Lectures IQQO QQ No. of Lectures
Announced 188<!-8iJ Given
1 2 Wm. B. Carpenter, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.
Physical Geography of the Deep
Sea 12
12 Prof. G. L. Goodale.
Geographical Botany .... 12
6 Prof. T. C. Mendenhall.
Motion and Matter .... 6
12 Dr. Samuel Kneeland.
The Philippine Islands ... 12
3 W. M. Davis.
Storms 3
2 J. W. Fewkes.
Jelly Fishes 2
12 Prof. Samuel P. Langley.
The Sun and Stars . . . . 12
1 2 Prof. James T. Bixby.
Inductive Philosophy of Religion 1 2
6 Prof. Frederick W. Putnam.
American Archeology ... 6
1883-84
1 2 Rev. J. G. Wood.
Structure of Animal Life ... 12
12 Prof. E. S. Morse.
Japan 12
8o The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
iz Prof. Chas. R. Cross.
Sound . . . . . . . . . 12
6 Mr. W. M. Davis.
Winds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes 6
1 2 Dr. T. Sterry Hunt.
Mineral Physiology . . . . 12
6 Mr. Geo. Kennan.
Asiatic Russia 6
10 Rev. Edward C. Mitchell.
Biblical Science and Modern Dis-
covery 10
6 Dr. Morris Longstreth.
The Germ Theory of Disease . 6
1884-85
6 Prof. R. S. Ball, LL.D., F.R.S.
Chapters on Modern Astronomy 6
6 Dr. Thomas D wight.
The Mechanics of Bone and
Muscle 6
6 Prof. Edmund W. Gosse.
The Transition from Shakespeare
to Pope 6
6 Dr. David G. Brinton.
North American Indians ... 6
6 Frederick A. Ober.
Mexico and its People ... 6
The Lowell Institute 81
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Rev. Leighton Parks.
Christianity and the Early Aryan
Religions 6
6 Edward Stanwood, Esq.
Early Party Contests .... 6
12 Gen. F. A. Walker.
The United States as Seen in the
Census 12
6 John C. Ropes, Esq.
The First Napoleon .... 6
1885-86
7 Rev. H. R. Haweis.
Music and Morals .... 7
8 Prof. James R. Soley, U.S.N.
The American Navy .... 8
6 Thomas D. Lockwood.
The Electric Telegraph and Tele-
phone 6
6 A. G. Sedgwick, Esq.
Law 6
1 2 Prof. Francis J. Child.
Early English Poetry . . . . 12
8 Rev. James De Normandie.
The Sunday Question ... 8
12 Prof. Chas. A. Young.
Popular Astronomy . . . . 12
82 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 (r) Officers of Both Armies.
The Late Civil War. (Lecturers
selected by the Military Hist-
orical Society of Massachusetts) 1 2
(/?) Gen. Charles Devens.
Introductory.
(J) Col. J. Hotchkiss.
Pope's Campaign,
(c) Gen. G. H. Gordon.
Antietam.
(</) Col. Theodore A. Dodge.
Chancellorsville.
0) Col. W. Allan.
Stonewall Jackson.
(/) Gen. Francis A. Walker.
Gettysburg.
(£) Col. T. L. Livermore.
The Northern Volunteers.
(£) Major H. Kyd Douglass.
The Southern Volunteers.
(/') Gen. Wm. F. Smith.
Chattanooga.
(_/') John C. Ropes, Esq.
The Campaign of 1 864.
(/*) Col. Henry Stone.
Franklin and Nashville.
The Lowell Institute 83
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
(/) Col. Frederick C. Newhall.
The Last Campaign .... 24
1886-87
8 Alfred Russell Wallace, LL.D.
Darwinism and some of its Ap-
plications 8
1 2 Prof. Rodolfo Lanciani.
Recent Archaeological Discoveries
in Rome 12
6 Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S.
The Development of Plants in
Geological Times .... 6
6 Wm. F. Apthorp, Esq.
Music 6
4 Dr. Leonard Waldo.
Horology 4
8 Geo. M. Towle, Esq.
Foreign Governments ... 8
6 Mr. Henry A. Clapp.
Shakespearean Dramas ... 6
6 (r) James Russell Lowell.
Early English Dramatists ... 12
1887-88
6 (r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp.
Dramas of Shakespeare ... 12
84 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
1 2 Prof. J. P. Cooke.
Necessary Limitation of Scientific
Thought 12
8 Rev. G. Frederick Wright.
The Ice Age in North America . 8
6 James R. Gilmore.
The Early Southwest .... 6
8 John S. Billings, M.D., U.S.A.
The History of Medicine . . 8
8 Prof. James Russell Soley, U.S.N.
European Neutrality during the
Civil War 8
6 Prof. D. G. Lyon.
Ancient Assyrian Life ... 6
6 Prof. George L. Goodale.
Forests and Forest Products . . 6
1888-89
8 Prof. Charles H. Moore.
Gothic Architecture .... 8
6 Ivan Panin.
Russian Literature .... 6
4 Eadweard Muybridge.
Animal Locomotion .... 4
8 Prof. N. S. Shaler.
Geographical Conditions and Life 8
6 Wm. Bradford, Esq.
Wonders of the Polar World . 6
The Lowell Institute 85
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Col. Theodore A. Dodge.
Great Captains 6
8 Richard Salter Storrs, D.D.
Bernard of Clairvaux .... 8
6 George Kennan.
Eastern Siberia 6
8 Prof. Edward S. Morse.
Peoples and Institutions Abroad . 8
1889-90
8 Prof. Edward D. Cope.
The Evolution of the Vertebrata 8
2 Carl Lumholtz, M.A.
Amopg Australian Natives . . 2
8 C. C. Coffin.
The Unwritten and Secret His-
tory of the Late Confederacy . 8
6 Prof. Thomas M. Drown.
Water Supply in its Relation to
Public Health 6
8 Prof. William G. Farlow.
Lower Forms of Plant Life . . 8
12 John Fiske, Litt.D., LL.D.
The Discovery and Colonization
of America 12
8 Louis Dyer, Esq.
The Gods in Greece as Known
by Recent Excavations . . 8
The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
7 Augustus Le Plongeon, M.D.
Ancient American Civilization . 7
6 Prof. William Rotch Ware.
Equestrian Monuments ... 6
1890-91
6 Hon. John A. Kasson, LL.D.
Diplomacy and Diplomatists . . 6
7 Louis Fagan.
Treasures of the British Museum 7
8 Prof. Barrett Wendell.
English Composition .... 8
8(r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp.
Dramas and Sonnets of Shake-
speare 1 6
8 Prof. Charles E. Munroe.
Explosive Substances .... 8
6 George M. Towle.
The Era of Elizabeth ... 6
8 Francis G. Peabody, D.D.
The Ethics of the Social Question 8
10 Prof. James Geikie, D.C.L., LL.D.,
F.R.S.
Europe During and After the Ice
Age 10
3 A. Lawrence Rotch, S.B.
Mountain Meteorology ... 3
The Lowell Institute 87
No. of Lectures , QQI no No. of Lectures
Announced 188J1-94 Giyen
6 Oliver W. Huntington, Ph.D.
Meteorites 6
6 Charles W. Eliot.
Recent Educational Changes and
Tendencies 6
8 Charles Valentine Riley, Ph.D.
Entomology 8
8 Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D.
The Evolution of Christianity . 8
8 William Everett, Ph.D., Litt.D.
Saints and Saintly Service . . 8
8 Prof. A. V. G. Allen, D.D.
Christian Institutions ; their Ori-
gin, Development and Results 8
10 Prof. G. Frederick Wright.
The Origin and Antiquity of the
Human Race 10
6 George L. Fox, M.A.
The Public Schools of England . 6
8 John Murray, Ph.D.
Oceanography 8
1892-93
4 (r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp.
Dramas of Shakespeare
6 Prof. T. C. Mendenhall.
Earth Measuring .
88 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Mr. C. S. Peirce.
The History of Science ... I z
8 Prof. Josiah P. Cooke, LL.D.
Photograph Sketches of Egypt . 8
6 Louis C. Elson.
Music, its Origin and Develop-
ment 6
6 George H. Martin, A.M.
Evolution of the Massachusetts
School System ...... 6
12 Prof. George L. Goodale.
Ceylon, Java, Australia, and New
Zealand I z
8 Prof. Charles R. Cross.
The Acoustic Phenomena Under-
lying Music 8
9 A. Lawrence Lowell, Esq.
The Governments of Central
Europe 9
6 Prof. Gaetano Lanza.
Engineering Practice and Educa-
tion 6
12 Prof. Henry Drummond, LL.D.,
F.R.S.E., F.G.S.
The Evolution of Man . . . 1 8
The last six repeated.
The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures 1000 a A No. of Lectures
Announced Given
4 (r) Protap Chunder Mozoomdar.
The Religious and Social Life of
India 8
1 2 Prof. Charles R. Cross.
Modern Uses of Electricity . . 12
6 George L. Fox, M.A.
English Public Schools ... 6
6 Prof. Gaetano Lanza.
The Strength of Materials . . 6
6 Prof. William T. Sedgwick.
Bacteriology 6
8 S. R. Koehler.
Engraving 8
6 Sir J. William Dawson, LL.D.,F.R.S.
The Meeting Place of Geology
and History 6
3 Carl Lumholtz, M.A.
The Characteristics of the Cave
Dwellers of the Sierra Madre . 3
8 Prof. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S.
The Colors of Animals ... 8
8 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh.
The Native Races of North
America 8
1 2 Prof. H. Von Hoist.
The French Revolution Tested
by Mirabeau's Career . . . 12
90 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Percival Lowell, Esq.
Japanese Occultism .... 6
8 William Jewett Tucker, D.D.
The Influence of Religion To-day 8
1894-95
4(r) Mr. Henry A. Clapp.
Historical Dramas of Shakespeare 8
6 Prof. T. W. Rhys Davids, Ph.D., LL.D.
Buddhism 6
8 Major Wm. R. Livermore, U.S.A.
Light-house Systems .... 8
8 Rev. F. H. James.
China and the Chinese ... 8
8 Rev. Frederick H. Wines.
Crime and Criminals .... 8
12 John Fiske.
Early Settlement of Virginia . . 12
6 C. Howard Walker, F.A.I.A.
Decoration Applied to Architect-
ure and the Industrial Arts . 6
4 Percival Lowell, Esq.
The Planet Mars 4
6 Alexandre S. Chessin, Ph.D.
Russia and Russians .... 6
8 Philip Stafford Moxom, D.D.
The Church in the First Three
Centuries . . 8
The Lowell Institute 91
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
8 George F. Kunz.
Precious Stones 8
8 Rev. E. Winchester Donald, D.D.
The Expansion of Religion . . 8
1895-96
6 Sir J. Wm. Dawson, LL.D., F.R.S.
The Beginnings of Life ... 6
8 Prof. Arlo Bates.
The Study of Literature ... 8
8 Prof. Henry S. Nash, D.D.
The Establishment of Christianity
in Europe, in Relation to the
Social Question .... 8
4 Francis C. Lowell, Esq.
Joan of Arc 4
12 Lectures on Engineering 12
(4) Desmond Fitzgerald, Esq., C.E.
Water Supply.
(2) Prof. D wight Porter.
Sewerage.
(4) Prof. C. Frank Allen.
Roadways, Pavements, and Rail-
roads.
(2) Prof. George F. Swain.
Bridges.
10 Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan.
Habit and Instinct . . 10
92 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Prof. John F. Weir, N.A., M.A.
Some Principal Centres and Mas-
ters in Art 6
8 Prince Serge Wolkonsky.
Russian History and Russian Lit-
erature 8
6 George W. Cable.
The Story-teller and His Art . 6
8 Rev. George Hodges, D.D.
Present Christian Problems . . 8
8 Henry P. Walcott, M.D.
State Medicine 8
8 Prof. A. E. Verrill.
Mollusca, Shell-fish and their
Allies 8
1896-97
10 Louis C. Elson.
The Symphony and the Sym-
phony Orchestra . . . . 10
8 Prof. William James, M.D.
Exceptional Mental States . . 8
6 Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., LL.D.
The Religions of Primitive Peo-
ples 6
6 Prof. Wm. Z. Ripley, Ph.D.
Anthropological History of the
European Races .... 6
The Lowell Institute 93
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
6 Rev. G. Frederick Wright, D.D.,
LL.D.
Scientific Aspects of Christian
Evidences 6
6(r) Henry A. Clapp, A.M.
Comedies of Shakespeare ... 12
8 Prof. Charles R. Cross.
The X Rays of Rontgen ... 8
10 Prof. Arthur Gordon Webster.
Electricity and Magnetism, Light
and the Ether 10
6 Prof. Felix Adler.
The Ethics of Marriage ... 6
10 Capt. A. T. Mahan, U.S.N.
Naval Warfare 10
1897-98
10 Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S.
Tides 10
6 Prof. Michael Foster, Sec. R.S.
Some Features of Brain Work . 6
2 Prince Kropotkin.
(</) Savages and Barbarians.
(£) The Mediaeval City . . 2
6 (r) Edward E. Hale.
The Local History and Antiqui-
ties of Boston , 1 2
94 The Lowell Institute
No. of Lectures No. of Lectures
Announced Given
12 Prof. George Lincoln Goodale, LL.D.
Food Plants and Their Products 1 2
6 Rev. T. K. Cheyne, M.A., D.D.
Jewish Religious Life after the
Exile 6
10 Rev. Jean Charlemagne Bracq, A.B.
Contemporary French Literature 10
3 (r) Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri, Ph.D.
The Social Life of Japan ... 6
12 John Fiske, Litt.D., LL.D.
The Dutch and Quaker Colonies 1 2
6 Prof. William E. Story, Ph.D.
The Beginnings of Mathematics 6
7 Hon. William Everett, LL.D.
Some Poets of Our Grandfathers'
Days 7
6 Alexander McKenzie, D.D.
The Divine Force in the Life of
the World . 6
Index
PAGE
Abbott, Lyman 87
Adams, C. F 71
Adams, Henry 73
Adler, Felix 93
Agassiz, Alexander 42
Agassiz, Louis 31, 36, 39, 52, 53, 56, 60, 62, 63, 66
Alden, Henry W. 61
Alger, William R 57, 59
Allan, W. 82
Allen, A. V. G 87
Allen, C. Frank 91
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 29
Apthorp, William F 77, 83
Arnold, Howard Payson 64
Athenaeum, Boston 12
Atkinson, William P 63, 69
Atwood, E. W 64
Bacon, Francis 67
Ball, R. S 80
Barnard, Henry 61
Bascom, John 66, 70
Bates, Arlo 91
Bell, Alexander Melville 65, 68, 69
Bellows, Henry W 58
Bickmore, Albert S 68
Billings, John S 84
Bixby, James T 72, 79
Blagden, George W 54
Bolles, E. C 77
Bowen, Francis 52, 53, 54, 58, 62
95
96
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PAGE
Boyesen, Hjalmar H 78
Bracq, Jean Charlemagne 94
Bradford, Gamaliel 73, 74, 78
Bradford, William 84
Brigham, William 65
Brigham, William T 64, 69
Brinton, David G 80, 92
Brown, S. G 59
Brown-Sequard, G. E 70, 71
Bryce, James 78
Burgess, E 62, 63
Burnap, George W 57
Cable, George W. 92
Carleton, William T 28
Carpenter, William B 79
Chadbourne, Paul A 63,68,72
Channing, William H 66
Chessin, Alexandre S 90
Cheyne, T. K 94
Child, Francis J 74, 75, 81
Clapp, Henry A 83, 86, 87, 90, 93
Clark, Henry James 61
Clarke, James Freeman 76, 78
Coffin, Charles Carleton 77, 85
Cooke, Dr. Josiah Parsons, 31, 33, 55, 57, 60, 62, 65, 69, 75, 84, 88
Cope, Edward D 85
Copeland, Robert Morris 64
Cotting, Dr. Benjamin E 19
Cross, Charles R 80, 88, 89, 93
Curators, and duties of 18, 19, 20
Curtis, George T S3
Curtis, George William 57
Cyr, N 73
Dana, R. H 63
Darwin, G. H 93
Davids, T. W. Rhys 9°
Index 97
PAGE
Davidson, Thomas 75, 77
Davis, E. H 56
Davis, W. M 79, 80
Dawkins, W. Boyd 76
Dawson, J. William 83, 89, 91
Dellenbaugh, Frederick S 89
De Normandie, James 81
Derby, George 68
Devens, Charles 82
Dewey, Orville 54, 56
Di Cesnola, L. P 75
Diman, J. L 76
Dodge, Theodore A 82, 85
Donald, E. Winchester 91
Douglass, H. Kyd 82
Drew, Edward B 78
Drown, Thomas M 85
Drummond, Henry v, 32, 37, 88
Duncan, T. A 67
Dwight, Thomas 80
Dyer, Louis 85
Eliot, Charles W. 87
Eliot, Samuel 62, 66, 72
Elliott, Charles Wyllis 75
Ellis, George E 60, 65, 68, 75
Elson, Louis C 88, 92
Emerson, George B 66
Endowment. See Fund.
Eustis, H. L 55
Everett, Edward 21, 47, 49
Everett, William 61, 74, 87, 94
Fagan, Louis 86
Farlow, William G 76, 85
Felton, C. C 54, S6, 59
Fewkes, J. W. 79
Field, David Dudley 68
H
98
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PAGE
Fields, James T 70
Fisher, George P 68, 72
Fiske, John 85, 90, 94
Fitzgerald, Desmond 91
Fletcher, J. C 61, 63
Foster, Michael 93
Fox, George L 87, 89
Freeman, Edward A 78
Frothingham, Richard 62
Fund of the Lowell Institute 12, 15 30,
Gage, W. L 64, 71
Gajani, Guglielmo 57, 60
Geikie, Archibald 75
Geikie, James 86
Giles, Henry 57, 59, 60, 61
Oilman, Arthur 51
Gilman, D. C 67
Gilmore, James R 84
Glidden, George R 50
Godkin, E. L 67
Goodale, George Lincoln 70, 79, 84, 88, 94
Goodrich, Charles B 54
Gordon, G. H 82
Gosse, Edmund W. 80
Gould, A. A 55
Gould, B. A 54
Gray, Asa 51
Greene, George W 61, 65
Guild, Edward C 74
Guyot, Arnold 54, 55
Hale, Edward Everett 32, 66, 93
Halleck, H. W 51
Hart, Charles F 69
Harvey, Wm. H 53
Haven, Samuel T 65
Haweis, H. R 81
Index 99
Hawkins, B. W 70
Hayes, Isaac 1 70
Haynes, Henry W 76
Hedge, Frederic H 56
Hill, Thomas 59, 68
Hillard, George S 52
Hodges, George 92
Hollingsworth, William 27
Holmes, Oliver Wendell v, 25, 32, 55, 66
Holmes, O. W., Jr 77
Hoist, Herman Eduard von 89
Holtzendorff, Franz von 73
Hopkins, Mark 51, 60, 64, 69
Horsford, Eben N 52
Hotchkiss, J 82
Hough, F. B 72
Hovey, William A 71
Howells, William D 68
Hunt, T. Sterry 63, 80
Huntington, F. D 58
Huntington, Oliver W 87
Huntington Hall 26
Hyde, Alexander 66, 67
Jackson, Charles 55
James, F. H 90
James, William 74, 92
Johnston, James F. W. 53
Kasson, John A 86
Kennan, George 80, 85
Kirk, J. Foster 62
Kneeland, Samuel 70, 71, 79
Koehler. S. R 89
Koeppen, Adolphus L 52
Kropotkin, P 93
Kunz, George F 91
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Lanciani, Rodolfo 83
Langley, Samuel P 79
Lantern, the vertical 35
Lanza, Gaetano 88, 89
Lasell, Edward 53
Lathrop, G. P 77
Lawrence, Abbott 41
Lawrence, Edward A 66, 69
Lawrence Scientific School 39, 41
Lectures, total number of 29
Lectures, early popularity of in Boston 3
Lectures, publication of 38
Lecturers, selection of 30
Lemercier, F. G 66
Le Plangeon, Augustus 86
Lesdakelyi, E 61
Lesley, J. P 62
Lippitt, Francis J 62
Livermore, A. A 65
Livermore, T. L 82
Livermore, William R 90
Lockwood, Thomas D 81
Lodge, Henry Cabot 76
Longstreth, Morris 80
Loom, power 15
Lord, John 58
Levering, Joseph 31, 49, 50, 51, 55, 56, 59, 63, 75
Lowell, A. Lawrence 88
Lowell, Augustus 17
Lowell, Rev. Charles 15
Lowell, Francis Cabot 14
Lowell, Francis C 91
Lowell, James Russell 15, 32, 56, 83
Lowell, Judge John 13
Lowell, Judge John, sons of 14
Lowell, John Amory vi, 14, 15, 16, 18, 40
Lowell, John, Jr vi, n, 12, 13, 15, 18, 21, 46
Lowell, John, Jr., ancestry of 13
Index 101
PAGE
Lowell, John, Jr., will of 12, 15
Lowell, Percival 90
Lowell Drawing School 26, 28
Lowell Free Courses in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology 43
Lowell Free Courses in the Wells Memorial Institute 44
Lowell Institute, audiences of 37
Lowell Institute, influence of v, 39, 42
Lowell Institute, opening of 21
Lowell Institute, origin of 12
Lowell Free Lectures of the Boston Society of Natural
History 44
Lowell Free School of Practical Design 44
Lumholtz, Carl 85, 89
Lyceum, the New England 5
Lyell, Charles 50, 51, 54
Lyon, D. G 84
Mahan, A. T 93
Marlboro Chapel 25, 28
Marsh, George P 60
Martin, George H 88
Massachusetts Historical Society 29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26, 43, 44
Maury, M. F 57
McKenzie, Alexander 94
Mendenhall, T. C 79, 87
Mercantile Library Association 6
Merrill, Selah 74
Milburn, W. H 57. 77
Minot, Charles S 74
Mitchell, Edward C 80
Mitchell, O. M 52
Mitsukuri, Kakichi 94
Monti, Luigi 72, 77
Moore, Charles H 84
Morgan, C. Lloyd 91
Morse, Edward S 68, 78, 79, 85
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Moxom, Philip Stafford 90
Mozoomdar, Protap Chunder 89
Munroe, Charles E 86
Murray, John 87
Muybridge, Eadweard 84
Nash, Henry S 91
Newcomb, Simon 78
New England, early intellectual life of 2
Newhall, Frederick C 82
Nichols, William Ripley 73
Niles, William H 67, 71, 76
Northrup, B. G 70
Norton, Charles Eliot 61, 72
Nuttall, Thomas 49
Ober, Frederick A 80
Odeon, The 9
Ogden, William B. 67
Old Corner Book Store 22, 23
Olmstead, F. L 67
Palfrey, John G 49, 50, 56
Panin, Ivan 84
Parker, Joel 55. 66
Parks, Leighton 81
Peabody, A. P 61, 64, 71
Peabody, Francis G 86
Peirce, Benjamin 60, 67, 73, 75
Peirce, Charles S 63, 88
Perkins, C. C 67, 69, 70, 74
Phillips, Wendell 5
Pickering, E. C 70
Playfair, Lyon 76
Poets, English vi
Porter, Dwight 91
Potter, Alonzo 51, 52, 53, 54
Poulton, Edward B 89
Index 103
PAGE
Power loom 15
Price, Bonamy 71
Proctor, Richard A 70, 71
Pumpelly, Raphael 67
Putnam, Frederick W 79
Ray, Isaac 58
Reid, David B 57
Rhys Davids, T. W 90
Riley, Charles Valentine 87
Ripley, William Z 92
Robbins, Chandler 66
Rogers, Henry D 51, 52, 53, 56
Rogers, William B 58, 59, 60
Ropes, John C 81,82
Rotch, A. Lawrence 86
Runkle, John D 73
Samuels, Edward A 63
Sanborn, F. B 73
Scharb, E. Vitalis 57
Schlagintweit, Robert von 64
Scholarship, Professor Tyndall's 42
Scudder, Horace E 78
Sedgwick, A. G 81
Sedgwick, William T 20, 89
Semper, Carl 74
Shaler, N. S 69, 84
Silliman, Benjamin 21, 31, 49, 50
Slavery, first prohibition of 14
Smith, Walter 69
Smith, William F 82
Soley, James R 81, 84
Solger, Reinhold 58, 59
Sparks, Jared 50
Spaulding, H. G 71, 73
Squier, E. George 63
Stanwood, Edward 8r
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Steffen, William 61
Stereopticon, first use of 35
Stone, Henry . . 82
Stone, Thomas T 58
Storrs, Richard Salter 77, 85
Story, William E 94
Swain, George F 91
Taylor, Bayard 74
Tenney, Sanborn 69, 72
Theatres, early 3, 8
Theatres, prejudice against 7, 9
Thompson, D'Arcy W 64
Tickets, distribution of 21, 23
Towle, George Makepeace 77, 83, 86
Tremont Temple 9
Trowbridge, John 71, 76
Trustee, powers and duties of the sole 12, 16, 17
Tucker, William Jewett 90
Tyler, M. Coit 77
Tyndall, John 42, 69
Upham, Charles W 65
Verrill, A. E 92
Walcott, Henry P. 92
Waldo, Leonard 83
Walker, C. Howard 90
Walker, Francis A 73, 75, 81, 82
Walker, James 49, 50, 59
Wallace, Alfred Russell 83
Ware, William R. 74, 86
Washburn, Emory 64, 65, 73
Waterston, Robert C 60, 68
Webster, Arthur Gordon 93
Weir, John F 92
Wells, David A 73
Index 105
PAGE
Wells Memorial Workingmen's Institute 44
Wendell, Barrett 86
Whipple, Edwin P. 59
Whitney, William D 62
Wilder, Burt G 63, 67
Will of John Lowell, Jr 12, 15
Wilson, Daniel 6l
Wines, Frederick H go
Winthrop, Robert C 65
Wolkonsky, Serge 92
Wood, J. G 79
Wood, John T. 71
Woolsey, T. D 68
Wright, Carroll D 73, 76
Wright, G. Frederick 84, 87, 93
Wyman, Jeffries 18, 49, 53
Young, C. A 72, 8l
Zachos, J. C 62
A List of Publications correspond-
ing to, and Largely the Result of,
Courses of Lectures delivered be-
fore the Lowell Institute.*
Abbott, Lyman.
Christianity and Social Problems.
Lowell Institute Lectures.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1897.
(Lowell Institute, 1891-92.)
Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.
Railroads : their Origin and Problems.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1878.
(Lowell Institute, 1874-75.)
Agassiz, Louis.
Comparative Embryology.
Flanders & Co., Boston, 1849.
(Lowell Institute, 1848-49.)
Geological Sketches. First Series.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1866.
(Lowell Institute, 1853-54.)
Methods of Study in Natural History.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1863.
(Lowell Institute, 1861-62.)
* This list, which includes books only, has been compiled with
care but is believed to be still incomplete. Information bearing upon
it will be welcomed by the author, who may be addressed in care of
the publishers.
106
The Lowell Institute 107
Geological Sketches. Second Series.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1875.
(Lowell Institute, 1864-65.)
Alger, William Rounseville.
A Critical Study of the Doctrine of a Future
Life.
George W. Childs, Philadelphia, 1 860.
(Lowell Institute, 1856-57.)
Allen, Alexander Viets Grisnold.
Christian Institutions.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1897.
(Lowell Institute, 1891-92.)
Arnold, Howard Payson.
The Great Exposition : with Continental
Sketches.
Kurd & Houghton, New York, 1868.
(Lowell Institute, 1867-68.)
Bascom, John.
Science, Philosophy, and Religion : Lectures
delivered before the Lowell Institute,
Boston.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1871.
(Lowell Institute, 1869-70.)
Philosophy of English Literature : Lectures
before the Lowell Institute, Boston.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1874.
(Lowell Institute, 1873-74.)
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Bates, Arlo.
Talks on the Study of Literature.
Lowell Institute Lectures.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1897.
(Lowell Institute, 1895-96.)
Bowen, Francis.
Lowell Lectures on the Application of Meta-
physical and Ethical Science to the
Evidences of Religion.
Little & Brown, Boston, 1849.
(Lowell Institute, 1848-49.)
Brigham, William Tufts.
The Volcanic Phenomena of the Hawaiian
Islands.
Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1868.
(Lowell Institute, 1867-68.)
Brinton, Daniel Garrison.
Religion of Primitive Peoples : American
Lectures on the History of Religions.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1897.
(Lowell Institute, 1896-97.)
Burgess, Ebenezer.
What is Truth ? An Inquiry concerning
the Antiquity and Unity of the Human
Race. Lectures before the Lowell In-
stitute.
Israel P. Warren, Boston, 1871.
(Lowell Institute, 1866-67.)
The Lowell Institute 109
Chadbourne, Paul Ansel.
Lectures on Natural Theology before the
Lowell Institute.
G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1867.
(Lowell Institute, 1865-66.)
Lowell Lectures : Instinct ; its Office in the
Animal Kingdom, and its Relation to
the Higher Power in Man.
G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1872.
(Lowell Institute, 1870-71.)
Clark, Henry James.
Mind in Nature : Origin of Life and Mode
of Development of Animals. With
illustrations.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1865.
(Lowell Institute, 1863-64.)
Clarke, James Freeman.
Events and Epochs in Religious History.
Being the Substance of Twelve Lect-
ures delivered in the Lowell Institute,
Boston.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1881.
(Lowell Institute, 1879-80.)
Ten Great Religions. Part II. A Com-
parison of all Religions. Lowell Insti-
tute Lectures.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1883.
(Lowell Institute, 1881-82.)
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Cooke, Josiah Parsons.
Religion and Chemistry ; or, Proofs of God's
Plan in the Atmosphere and its Ele-
ments.
Charles Scribner, New York, 1864.
(Lowell Institute, 1 860-61.)
The New Chemistry.
D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1874.
(Lowell Institute, 1872-73.)
The Credentials of Science the Warrant of
Faith.
R. Carter & Bros., New York, 1888.
( Lowell Institute, 1887-88.)
Curtis, George Ticknor.
History of the Origin, Foundation, and Adop-
tion of the Constitution of the United
States, with Notices of its Principal
Framers.
Harper & Bros., New York, 1854.
(Lowell Institute, 1849-50.)
Davids, Thomas William Rhys.
Buddhism : Its History and Literature.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1896.
(Lowell Institute, 1894-95.)
Davis, William Morris.
Cyclones and Tornadoes.
Lee & Shepard, Boston; Charles T. Dilling-
ham, New York, 1884.
(Lowell Institute, 1883-84.)
The Lowell Institute in
Dawson, Sir John William.
The Meeting Place of Geology and History.
Lectures for the Lowell Institute, Boston,
Massachusetts.
Fleming H. Revell Co., London and New York,
1894. (Lowell Institute, 1893—94.)
The Relics of Primeval Man. The Sub-
stance of a Course of Lectures on
Pre-Cambrian Fossils, delivered in the
Lowell Institute, Boston.
Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1897.
(Lowell Institute, 1895-96.)
Dewey, Orville.
The Problem of Human Destiny, or the End
of Providence in the World and Man.
Lowell Lectures.
J. Miller, New York, 1864.
(Lowell Institute, 1851-52.)
Diman, J. Louis.
The Theistic Argument as affected by Recent
Theories.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1881.
(Lowell Institute, 1879-80.)
Dodge, Theodore Ayrault.
Great Captains. Six Lowell Institute Lect-
ures Showing the Influence on the Art
of War of the Campaigns of Alexander,
Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus,
Frederick, and Napoleon.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1889.
(Lowell Institute, 1888-89.)
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Donald, E. Winchester.
The Expansion of Religion. Lowell Insti-
tute Lectures.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1895.
(Lowell Institute, 1894-95.)
Drummond, Henry.
Lowell Lectures on the Ascent of Man.
Pott & Co., New York, 1895.
(Lowell Institute, 1892-93.)
Dyer, Louis.
Studies of the Gods in Greece. At certain
Sanetuaries recently excavated. Eight
Lectures given at the Lowell Institute.
The Macmillan Company, London, 1891.
(Lowell Institute, 1889-90.)
Everett, Edward.
A Memoir of Mr. John Lowell, Jr., deliv-
ered as the Introduction to the Lectures
on his Foundation, in the Odeon, Boston,
Mass., 3ist December, 1839 ; repeated
in the Marlborough Chapel, 2d January,
1840.
Published by the Lowell Institute.
Little & Brown, Boston, 1840 and 1879.
(Lowell Institute, 1840-41.)
Everett, William.
On the Cam.
Sever & Francis, Cambridge, 1 866.
(Lowell Institute, 1863-64.)
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Old Virginia and her Neighbours.
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Human Life in Shakespeare.
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The Earth and Man. Translated from
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Italian Art.
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